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title: "Blogs by Abhay Nikam"
description: "Read BigBinary blog posts by Abhay Nikam."
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# Blogs by Abhay Nikam

Read BigBinary blog posts by Abhay Nikam.

## Posts

### Rails 6.1 allows configuring default value of enum attributes

[Rails 6.1 allows configuring default value of enum attributes](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-6-1-allows-enums-attributes-to-have-default-value)

- Author: Abhay Nikam
- Published: July 21, 2020
- Categories: Rails 6.1, Rails

Rails 6.1 allows enums attributes to configure the default value

### Rails 6.1 adds support for where with a comparison operator

[Rails 6.1 adds support for where with a comparison operator](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-6-1-adds-support-for-where-with-comparison-operator)

- Author: Abhay Nikam
- Published: July 14, 2020
- Categories: Rails 6.1, Rails

Rails 6.1 adds support for where with a comparison operator

### Rails 6.1 tracks Active Storage variant in the database

[Rails 6.1 tracks Active Storage variant in the database](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-6-1-tracks-active-storage-variant-in-the-database)

- Author: Abhay Nikam
- Published: June 30, 2020
- Categories: Rails 6.1, Rails

Rails 6.1 tracks Active Storage variant in the database

### Rails 6.1 introduces class_names helper

[Rails 6.1 introduces class_names helper](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-6-1-introduces-class_names-helper)

- Author: Abhay Nikam
- Published: February 4, 2020
- Categories: Rails 6.1, Rails

Rails 6.1 introduces class_names helper to conditionally add CSS classes.

### Rails 6.1 adds \*\_previously_was attribute methods

[Rails 6.1 adds \*\_previously_was attribute methods](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-6-1-adds-_previously_was-attribute-methods)

- Author: Abhay Nikam
- Published: December 3, 2019
- Categories: Rails 6.1, Rails

Rails 6.1 adds \*\_previously_was attribute methods for dirty tracking

### Rails 6 adds ActiveRecord::Relation#annotate

[Rails 6 adds ActiveRecord::Relation#annotate](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-6-adds-annotate-to-activerecord-relation-queries)

- Author: Abhay Nikam
- Published: July 15, 2019
- Categories: Rails 6, Rails

Rails 6 adds ActiveRecord::Relation#annotate to annotate generated SQL queries

### Rails 6 adds ActiveRecord::Relation#reselect

[Rails 6 adds ActiveRecord::Relation#reselect](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-6-adds-activerecord-relation-reselect)

- Author: Abhay Nikam
- Published: April 2, 2019
- Categories: Rails 6, Rails

Rails 6 adds ActiveRecord::Relation#reselect method.

### Rails 6 delete_by, destroy_by ActiveRecord::Relation

[Rails 6 delete_by, destroy_by ActiveRecord::Relation](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-6-adds-activerecord-relation-delete_by-and-activerecord-relation-destroy_by)

- Author: Abhay Nikam
- Published: March 13, 2019
- Categories: Rails 6, Rails

In Rails 6, ActiveRecord::Relation has two new methods \`delete_by\` and
\`destroy_by\`.

### Rails 6 adds negative scopes on enum

[Rails 6 adds negative scopes on enum](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-6-adds-negative-scopes-on-enum)

- Author: Abhay Nikam
- Published: March 6, 2019
- Categories: Rails 6, Rails

Rails 6 adds default negative scopes for all defined enum on model

### Rails 5 Active Record attributes API

[Rails 5 Active Record attributes API](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-5-attributes-api)

- Author: Abhay Nikam
- Published: December 11, 2018
- Categories: Rails 5, Rails

Rails 5 introduces Active Record attributes API to type cast values to
appropriate Ruby types

### Ruby 2.6 Range#cover? accepts Range object as argument

[Ruby 2.6 Range#cover? accepts Range object as argument](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-2-6-range-cover-now-accepts-range-object)

- Author: Abhay Nikam
- Published: October 24, 2018
- Categories: Ruby 2.6, Ruby

Ruby 2.6 Range#cover? now accepts Range object as an argument

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